Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-01-19
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self-possession.
JEERED BY THE OUTSIDE CROWD.
AS he descended the steps leading to the
prison yard some of the crowd outside
caught sight of him for the first and only
time during the day and .jeered and cheered
loudly. These signs of disapproval from
the crowd made no impression upon the
man for whom they were intended. As the
cries died away he looked up and continued
on his course to his death.
he MOUNTS HE sCAFFOLD WITH FIRMNEss
He mounted the steps of the scaffold with
firmness and took the place on the platform
assigned him. The scene at this point was
picture. The newspaper reporters, off
GERS. and others composing the crowd OF
two or three hundred allowed within the in
closure listened with GREATNESS expectancy
for confession from the man who in a
minute more would die the ignominious
death of a murderer. No sign was made
there.
DIR. HATCHER SPEAKS FOR THE PRIoNER.
DR.. Hatcher, spiritual adviser, said, speak
ing for the prisoner, that he had no Twill
towards any human being. A moment
more the drop fell, and the man fell nine
feet The gaudy silken rope stretched and
the dying felon's feet barely touched the
ground
THE CURIOUS CROWD.
For hours before the execution the houses.
treetops, and every other available place of
elevation was crowded with those curious to
catch a glimpse of the prisoner. On the
arms of a telegraph pole, which offered a
place from which the scaffold could be seen,
four or five boys and men we're perched.
A MESSAGE TO GOV. LEE.
Gov. Lee, who has given Cluverius's case
the most careful attention, is more con
WINGED TO day than ever of his guilt. Last
night about one o'clock a Unknown gen.
tleman called upon Gov. Lee with message
from Cluverius to the effect that he (the
cendemned) would send young lady to the
Governor to- day who would testify that she
was at thu Mozart Hall with Cluverius ON
the night of the tragedy, provided the name
She would be accompanied, Cluverius said
by her mother, who would substantiato her
testimony. The Governor answered that
he would be very glad indeed to hear the
lady's statement, or to have any facts upon
which to base his action, but that be could
not pledge himself to conceal the lady IS
name, as 1t might be necessary to make an
investig alton as to the truthfulness of the
matter. The lady did not appear. and the
Governor heard no more from the prisoner
en- the subject.
CLUvERIUs's FAILURE TO CONFESS.
The persistence of the convicted man in
protesting his innocence will be surprise
throughout the State Many believed that
when tho trying moment came the man
would break down and make clean breast
Of the whole affair. His failure to do this,
so far rs any one row knows, it is believed,
will cause revulsion of popular sentiment
in his favor. 1t will certainly leave this
case, which has been surrounded with mys-
terry from the first to the last step, in doubt.
CLUvERIUs's HISTORY OF HIS CASE.
For several weeks past Cluverius was en-
gagged in the preparation of history Of his
case, which was to-day put on sale on the
streets. In this from first to last the author
asserts his innocence, and takes up and dis
cusses tie testimony upon which he was
convicted piece by piece. The work is a
small F. implicit of 112 pages, and copy
righted.
EXTRACTS FROM THE PAMPHLET.
In reply to the often repeated charge OF
his indifference to the memory of Fannie
Lillian Madison, wfom he was convicted OF
numbering, he says in his book: "But those
who tht ,ight me guilty naturally looked for
some tragic and dramatic exhibition of TO-
greet at her death. Conscious of entire free
dom from completely in her death, and hav-
ing DO s. ecially intimate relations with her,
such an exhibition would have been forced
and unnt ural. l felt regret at her death,
intensified by the evidence of her previous
fall; the same regret that others similarly
related TO her felt. AS / was not her
murderer, did not feel like her murderer,
and. therefore, did not act as her murder
err
THE wATCK KEY.
OF the watch key, which played such an
solemn declaration, III the light of eternity,
is that this wat CHI key, which has been called
the pivotal evidence in the case, and which
seems to have had SO much weight with the
Governor in deciding him against executive
interference, was never mine, and was new
er seen 5y me until this trial began"
HIS PRESENCE IN RICHMOND.
Speaking Of his presence in Richmond on
the day and night of the death of Miss Mad
ison, Cluverius says: 81 have nothing to
confess. did not see F. L. Madison during
the day aud the night of the 18th of March.
That is all the confession have to make. :"
THE RELATIVES OF THE DECEASED
The mother and father were not in the
city toby. They have not seen their son
for many months. 1t is said they are con-
fined to their home in King William county
by sickness, and it was impossible for them
to get here to bid last adieu to him. Gu
verius was compelled to say his farewells
to these relations by letter or through his
brother. Willie Cluverius, who has stood by
him so beroically through all Of these trials.